Did i have a religious experiance?

Question

This morning i was praying the Rosary and as i got near the end something strange happened. I stopped and felt an atmosphere of unconditional love around me. I was sitting on my bed but i could not feel it underneath me. My eyes were shut but it looked almost as though white light was shining through my eyelids. I know i was still in my room as i could hear my clock ticking away, but it was strange. A voice in my head explained to me that some of the problems i have been having are natural for people of my age. Eventually, i had to open my eyes to read a prayer i did not know, but i felt peaceful and have felt different ever since. Was this a genuine religious experience or just my imagination?

Answer 1

i believe it was a religious experience  dont believe for a minute it was your imagination  

Answer 2

This sounds genuine to me.  I've had similar experiences while praying the rosary, especially while in a Eucharistic Adoration chapel with the Eucharist exposed.  

The fifteen promises of Mary to Christians who recite the rosary:

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against h**l, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.

6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in Paradise.

9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit high degree of glory in Heaven.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.

12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.

14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only Son, Jesus Christ.

15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

Our Lady has 117 titles. She selected this title at Fatima: "I am the Lady of the Rosary."

St. Francis de Sales said the greatest method of praying IS- Pray the Rosary.

St. Thomas Aquinas preached 40 straight days in Rome, Italy on just the Hail Mary.

St. John Vianney, patron of priests, was seldom seen without a rosary in his hand.

"The rosary is the scourge of the devil" -- Pope Adrian VI

"The rosary is a treasure of graces" -- Pope Paul V

Padre Pio, the stigmatic priest, said: "The Rosary is THE WEAPON"

Pope Leo XIII wrote 9 encyclicals on the rosary.

Pope John XXIII spoke 38 times about Our Lady and the Rosary. He prayed 15 decades daily.

St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote: "The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who so loves His Mother."

You can read about rosary miracles here, in the middle of the page:

http://overcomeproblems.com/about_the_ro...

And this book ("The Secret of the Rosary" by St. Louis de Montfort) is considered the greatest book on the Rosary ever written.  It is published online in its entirety here:

http://www.sanpiodapietrelcina.org/engli...

Answer 3

imagination

Answer 4

It was God's way of telling you He knows you personally. You were feeling the Holy Ghost, which was the Spirit of Truth that Jesus Christ promised to send as the comforter once He was crucified, so his disciples and all people could know truth.

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Answer 5

Whoa, what a surprise, the two Atheists think it was your imagination.

That actually sounds like a gunuine religious experience, thats kinda like what I felt this summer when I found God, and let Jesus into my life

Answer 6

It's possible the Lord will reward you for seeking him although praying the rosary is not biblical.  You were trying the best way you knew how so the Lord showed up.

Answer 7

Imagination.

Praying the Rosary basically equates to a form of meditation.

You calmed and centered yourself.